82 EARLY MAN IN BRITAIN. [CHAP. iv. 



of Africa. The hipparion also, an upper Meiocene 

 genus, is found at Malbattu, but is very rare. In place 



FIG. 15. Cervus tetraceros, Peyrolles, . 



of antelopes there is a most remarkable assemblage of 

 different kinds of deer, 1 one of which (Cervus cusanus) 

 possessed antlers similar to those of the roe (Fig. 11) ; 



1 For an account of the Pleiocene and Meiocene deer, see Dawkins, 

 Quart. Jour. Geol. Soc. Lond. xxxiv. p. 402. 



